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Moosling Cake Day

Somehow, it was time for another birthday.

During the Assiniboine hike, there had been a great deal of discussion regarding birthday plans. Largely what presents and cake he would like. Because those are good things to discuss if you’re attempting to distract a small person from how far they’re hiking.

And so there was a Woody cake. My first ever fondant effort. Making marshmallow fondant is actually pretty easy. It’s the applying it to the cake neatly part that is hard.

There was no singing of Happy Birthday (too loud and scary) and no blowing out of the candles (mama had to do it).

But there was certainly eating of the delicious cake (insides made by grandma, decorating courtesy of mama)

And now it’s all: “Next year I’ll be this many [holds up five fingers], and I’ll go to school!”. Yes, yes you will *gulp*.

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An early first birthday

We’re about to head off to Iceland for two weeks, so the first birthday celebrations came 13 days early… because otherwise we couldn’t have guaranteed that we’d be able to make a cake from the Australian Woman’s Weekly Birthday Cake book, and what sort of birthday would that have been?

The boy and his cake

And now for a flashback to 30 years prior to this cake, to another remarkably similar cake…

The girl and her cake

Anyway, the cake was enjoyed, even if it did initially cause a little confusion…

There was cheese and chocolate fondue as well, although he found that a lot less exciting than the CAKE.

The sugar rush afterwards was worn off with some intensive periods of crawling like an maniac, standing up and not quite walking (unless hanging onto something), trying to catch bubbles and chewing on things. Remarkably the whole thing was followed by a good nights sleep, and today he’s trying to overcome his fear of balloons (thanks to Brendan), and battling with the yellow shaped blocks which are supposed to fit into his new Tupperware shapes ball (thanks to Kristy and Joel).

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it’s my birthday and i’ll convert my van if i want to

Post author By megan
Post date 19.2.2006
3 Comments on it’s my birthday and i’ll convert my van if i want to

After much thinking and planning over the last week or so, I spent my birthday – well, the whole weekend – going to Bunnings a lot, and continuing the conversion of the dirty unkempt smoker-stench-filled ex-Trady van I bought, into a clean and excitingly decorated Van, perfect for camping trips.

With the help of the Heidelberg crew – thanks guys :) we converted this:

to this:

The piece in the middle lifts out, changing it from a bed into two storage bins with hinged lids.

The story is unfolding in the gallery here, much more work to be done still.

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random observations

Most of the cars here don’t have orange indicators. They just have red ones in with their brake lights. Which makes them not particularly visible. So even when people do decide to indicate, half the time you can’t tell anyway.

And now a quote from the Australian newspaper, The Age:

“Up to 12 people wanted over the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq hariri are believed to be Australian citizens who could have returned home after the bombing earlier this week, according to a senior Lebanese minister. Lebanon’s Justice Minister Adnan Addoum said authorities had contacted Interpol in Sydney over the departure from Beirut to Australia of 12 men – most bearded – on Monday, the day of the bombing that killed Mr Hariri and 16 others.”

You have to watch out for those bearded men. The emphasis is mine, but that’s how the article was written.

Oh, and I’ve just realised why it doesn’t feel like my birthday. My birthday is in summer. It’s quite often stinking hot. It’s never been -2oC before (oh no, sorry, today actually reached a maximum of 0oC, but with windchill making it much colder).

Also, apologies to people who are trying to look at my site using internet explorer. I might get around to fixing the silly menu behaviour sometime this weekend.